Pencil holder and sharpener.



R. PBDEN. v PENCIL HOLDER AND SHARPENER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1913.

Patented Jan. 27, 1914.

RUDOLPH PEDEN, OF HARRISON, ARKANSAS.

PENCIL HOLDER AND SHARPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJan. 27, 1914.

Application filed Hay18, 1913. Serial No. 767,405.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH PEDEN, citizen of the United States, residing at Harrison, in the county of Boone and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil Holders and Sharpeners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined pencil holders and sha-rpeners, and has for one of its objects to provide asimply constructed device adapted to be supported upon a penoil and assist in holding the latter from displacement in the pocket, and at the same time Provide an efl'ectual device whereby the pencil may be sharpened.

With these andother objects in view. the invention consists in certain novel'features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative'of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure l is an elevation of the improved device applied to a pencil. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2.2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation with the lower portion in section on the line.33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of the cutting blade. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail illustrating a modification in the construction of the body and the cutting blade. Fig. 6

is aperspective view of a modified construc-v tion of the cutting blade.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a stock or body 10 having curved wings or arms 11 to partially embrace the pencil represented at 12. The body 10 is formed with an upwardly directed extension 13 enlarged at 14 preferably in the form of a ball. The body 10 is also provided with a downwardly extended trough-like portion 15, the latter preferably extending obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the body as shown in Fig.

- 3. The downwardly directed portion 15 is provided with an opening 16 and with dovetailed guideways 17-18 to receive a cutting blade 19, the latter having dove-tailed edges to engage in the dove-tailed portions 17-18.

cutting edge 20 in its upper edge.

The blade 13 is formed with a concaved The dove-tailed guideway 18 is deeper than the guideway 17 so that the cutting edge 20 is spaced for a. considerable distance from the upper edge of the opening 16' so that the cutting edge 20 of the blade extends for a distance inwardly of the inner face of the oblique portion of the extension 15, as illustrated in Fig. 3, to provide a passage for the shavings as they are severed from the pencil as hereafter explained. The wings 11 coact with the extension 13 to support the pencil 12 spaced a suflicient distance from .the knife-edge 20 to prevent the latter from engaging the pencil except when the latter is to be sharpened. By this means when the improved device is located upon a pencil at the farthest point from the sharpened end with the extension 13 directed toward the sharpened end of the pencil, the extension 13 forms a clip to bear over the upper edge of the pocket and thus secure the pencil in position relative to the pocket and prevent its accidental displacement.

When the device is to be employed as a pencil sharpener it is detached from the pencil and the end to be sharpened drawn repeatedly over the cutting edge 20 of the blade and the pencil turned slowly until the desired point is produced. A

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and plated or otherwise ornamented.

Theblade 19 will preferably be slightly tapered from end to end and the guideways 17-18 correspondingly tapered, so that the blade is held by a slight wedge-like pressure to prevent its accidental displacement.

In Fig. 4 theblade 19 is shown with a curved cutting edge, but the cutting edge may be straight, as shown in Fig. 6. In Figs. 1-23 the blade 19 is shown constructed separately from the frame 10 and inserted in dovetailed grooves, while in Fig. 5 the blade is shown integral with the frame 10. Either form of the construction may be employed without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A combined pencil holder and sharpener comprising a body having lateral wings to engage a pencil and with a trough-like extension extending obliquely to the longitudin'al plane of the tudin'al plane of the body and a cutting blade transversely of the extension and extending at its cutting edge into the same.

2. A combined pencil holder and sharpener comprising a body having a troug like extension extending obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the body, and a cutting blade transversely of the extension and extending at its cutting edge into the same.

3. A combined encil holder and sharp ener comprising a dy having a trough-like extension extending obli uely to the longiy, said extension having an opening, and a cutting blade sup ported upon said extension transversely oi said opening and projecting at its cutting edge into the extension.

4. A combined encil holder andsharpener comprising a ody having a trough-like extension directed obliquely to the longit-udinal plane of the body, and abutting blade transversely of the extension and'extending at its cutting'edge into the same.

' 5. A combined pencil holder and sharpener comprising a bod having a trough-like extension extending o liquely to the longitudinal plane of the body, said extension having an opening with its terminals .dovetailed, and a cutting blade having dovetailed edges engaging the terminals of the openin and extending transversely of the same and pro ecting at its cutting edge into the extension.

' In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presenceof two witnesses.

' RUDOLPH PEDEN. [1,. 8.]

Witnesses: W. H. CLIFTON,

En Rosson. 

